Recent content by Chiclayo guy

Perhaps some but not all. Popular science provides a valuable service to people like me who lack the background in math and physics to even begin to understand the science behind the standard model. Yes, popular science oversimplifies and in doing so contains errors and creates wrong...

In common usage infinite usually means eternal. No beginning and no end. How is it possible to assign early, middle or late time periods to something that has existed forever? If cosmologists have arbitrarily chosen to designate the big bang as the early period of an infinite universe, that's a...

If there were no 'points', would space exist?

Just thinking out loud...if the current thinking is that the universe is infinite, do terms like "early universe" and "what happened" even make sense?

I am involved in a discussion about the origin of religion. I made the statement that the very early humans who were speculating about the causes of things that frightened them and that they did not understand (wind, thunder, earthquakes) were engaged in philosophy and science. Their exercise...

Well...there´s Murphy´s law:smile:

Where were you in Peru? I live here and even the 'nativeos' in the Andes and jungle are playing Pokemon. : )

In the diagram in post #7, assume there is a galaxy in the overlapping observable regions. Will Adam and Barbara both view the galaxy as receding from them?

How discouraging…I thought my question was crystal clear. Let me take another run at it. The universe is possibly infinite. Did/does inflation/expansion apply to the entire (I don’t know how else to phrase it) infinite universe? What phrases do physicists use to describe the initial size of...

I know that when we talk about ‘the universe’ we’re normally referring to the observable universe. It is my understanding that the universe is 'one thing’, the only distinction being that part is visible and part is not, yet occasionally when the subjects of size and inflation are discussed...

In the introduction you said, “…but my goal is to present the key ideas at a popular level, without assuming any prior understanding of cosmology.” In my view you’ve accomplished that, at least to the degree possible for someone with no physics or math background. My first read has already...

Hello Garth------ Thanks for the reply and attempt to educate me. I do appreciate it.

One of the most common questions on this forum over the years is, “What is the universe expanding into?” The common answer in one form or another is always ‘nothing.’ My question is, why does current thinking preclude an eternal and infinite space… a void populated by the physical stuff we know...

I don’t know if Morgan Freeman actually said “explosion from a point in space”, but until trained cosmologists can present an understandable explanation to the masses, the uninitiated are going to continue to accept that concept because lacking an alternate explanation, it is understandable and...

No, he's not joking...and stop calling him Shirley! Sorry, I just couldn't resist. :smile: